Duy Lap Nguyen is a graduate student in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. His interests include Vietnamese colonial history and literature, German idealism, and the Marxian critique of political economy. His article "Le Capital Amoureux in Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love will appear in a forthcoming issue of Historical Materialism. He is currently completing an essay titled "Work, Leisure, and Action in Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer."